Places
Through effective placemaking, we aim to transform the urban areas in which our properties are located into vibrant and sustainable communities by carefully balancing the aesthetic, functional, ecological, and cultural impacts of our developments.
Through effective placemaking, we aim to transform the urban areas in which our properties are located into vibrant and sustainable communities by carefully balancing the aesthetic, functional, ecological, and cultural impacts of our developments.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
The SDGs relevant to initiatives under this Pillar are:
SDG 8
Promoting sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all.
SDG 9
Building resilient infrastructure, promoting inclusive and sustainable industrialisation and fostering innovation.
SDG 11
Making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
HIGHLIGHTS OF OUR DEVELOPMENTS
GRI 2-1, 2-6
Taikoo Place
Taikoo Place
Home to Swire for over 100 years, Taikoo Place has been transformed from an industrial area housing the Taikoo dockyard and sugar refinery into a Global Business District spanning 10 office towers with six million sq ft of gross floor area. In 2024, the ambitious 10-year Taikoo Place Redevelopment Project was completed, producing an industry-leading Global Business District with modern workspaces and an array of amenities focused on health and wellness. These include Blueprint, a 30,000 sq ft co-working space; The Refinery private members’ club; and ArtisTree, a 7,000 sq ft multipurpose venue. These functions and amenities boost productivity and tenant wellbeing while uplifting the surrounding neighbourhood and integrating the development with the local community.
Its cornerstones are One Taikoo Place and Two Taikoo Place, world-class triple Grade-A office towers with two million sq ft of prime office space and enhanced facilities. Two Taikoo Place was designed and built to the highest sustainability standards, achieving Final Platinum ratings for LEED, WELL and BEAM Plus. Two Taikoo Place was also named a winner in the Urban Land Institute’s 2024 Asia Pacific Awards for Excellence and received a Merit Award in the biannual Quality Building Awards in the Hong Kong Non-Residential Building category.
Two gardens, Taikoo Square and Taikoo Garden, provide more than 70,000 sq ft of green space with over 260 species of native plants and trees as well as exotic species and water features for the enjoyment of the community. These landscaped areas enhance urban biodiversity by facilitating the movement of birds, butterflies and other wildlife between urban green spaces.
In 2024, Taikoo Place became the first and only development in Hong Kong and the first in the Greater Bay Area (“GBA”) to be awarded Platinum certification under LEED v4.1 for Communities: Existing. Taikoo Place was also the only Hong Kong project recognised in the LEED “Campaign: Frontiers” programme launched by LEED North Asia
By the end of 2025, all buildings in Taikoo Place had obtained quadruple Platinum certification, in the BEAM Plus, LEED, WELL, and WiredScore schemes
Taikoo Place
Taikoo Place
Home to Swire for over 100 years, Taikoo Place has been transformed from an industrial area housing the Taikoo dockyard and sugar refinery into a Global Business District spanning 10 office towers with six million sq ft of gross floor area. In 2024, the ambitious 10-year Taikoo Place Redevelopment Project was completed, producing an industry-leading Global Business District with modern workspaces and an array of amenities focused on health and wellness. These include Blueprint, a 30,000 sq ft co-working space; The Refinery private members’ club; and ArtisTree, a 7,000 sq ft multipurpose venue. These functions and amenities boost productivity and tenant wellbeing while uplifting the surrounding neighbourhood and integrating the development with the local community.
Its cornerstones are One Taikoo Place and Two Taikoo Place, world-class triple Grade-A office towers with two million sq ft of prime office space and enhanced facilities. Two Taikoo Place was designed and built to the highest sustainability standards, achieving Final Platinum ratings for LEED, WELL and BEAM Plus. Two Taikoo Place was also named a winner in the Urban Land Institute’s 2024 Asia Pacific Awards for Excellence and received a Merit Award in the biannual Quality Building Awards in the Hong Kong Non-Residential Building category.
Two gardens, Taikoo Square and Taikoo Garden, provide more than 70,000 sq ft of green space with over 260 species of native plants and trees as well as exotic species and water features for the enjoyment of the community. These landscaped areas enhance urban biodiversity by facilitating the movement of birds, butterflies and other wildlife between urban green spaces.
In 2024, Taikoo Place became the first and only development in Hong Kong and the first in the Greater Bay Area (“GBA”) to be awarded Platinum certification under LEED v4.1 for Communities: Existing. Taikoo Place was also the only Hong Kong project recognised in the LEED “Campaign: Frontiers” programme launched by LEED North Asia
By the end of 2025, all buildings in Taikoo Place had obtained quadruple Platinum certification, in the BEAM Plus, LEED, WELL, and WiredScore schemes
Pacific Place
Pacific Place
Located above the Admiralty MTR interchange station, the Pacific Place complex comprises six Grade A office towers, a retail complex, four five-star hotels and serviced apartments, totaling 2.4 million sq ft of gross floor area.
PACIFIC PLACE APARTMENTS has 268 exclusive serviced apartments and Upper House Hong Kong, a House Collective luxury hotel, has 117 rooms. Upper House Hong Kong was named one of the Top Ten Best Hotels in the world in the 2025 World’s 50 Best Hotels list
The complex’s latest development, Six Pacific Place, was completed in 2024. The 24-storey building has about 218,000 sq ft of premium triple Grade A office space. Six Pacific Place was designed and built to the highest sustainability standards, and includes a number of groundbreaking sustainable and cultural features – the preserved Po Wah Gate, biophilic design elements including a soil-less wall with a built-in irrigation system, air-purifying greenery on the 2/F podium and the 14/F sky gardens, and a cutting-edge solar energy system on the 27/F.
Six Pacific Place holds Final Platinum ratings for LEED, WELL and BEAM Plus. The building also has both WiredScore and SmartScore Platinum certifications, meaning its design and infrastructure provide an excellent digital experience that enables innovative workplace solutions.
Six Pacific Place is adjacent to Starstreet Precinct, a neighbourhood which Swire Properties has transformed into a lively area filled with cafés, bars, restaurants, galleries and boutique shops.
By end of 2025, all buildings in Pacific Place had obtained quadruple Platinum certification, in the BEAM Plus, LEED, WELL, and WiredScore schemes.
Citygate
Citygate
Located in Tung Chung on Lantau Island, Citygate is Hong Kong’s first and largest outlet shopping mall. The Citygate complex comprises 942,800 sq ft of retail space and 160,000 sq ft of office space. Directly connected to the Tung Chung MTR Station and close to Hong Kong International Airport and the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, this development offers excellent connectivity to transportation nodes and Hong Kong’s most popular tourist sites.
In 2025, Citygate earned the First Place in the ASHRAE Technology Award 2025/26 for its exemplary work on implementing data-driven retro-commissioning, chiller optimisation and a CloudBased Smart Energy Management Platform, through which the outlet achieved 770,000 kWh (17.7%) in energy savings in 2024 compared to a 2021 baseline.
Cityplaza
Cityplaza
Cityplaza is the largest shopping mall on Hong Kong Island by gross floor area, with a total floor area of 1.11 million sq ft. Directly accessible from Tai Koo MTR Station, the six-level mall houses more than 170 shops and restaurants, a cinema, an indoor ice rink and more than 800 indoor parking spaces. Its host of retail, dining and entertainment outlets, together with engaging mall promotions and activities, have made Cityplaza an enduringly popular hub for community leisure and enjoyment. The mall is also connected to the EAST Hong Kong hotel, the Taikoo Shing residential development and more than 100 outdoor shops that serve the local neighbourhood.
The Headland Residences
The Headland Residences
THE HEADLAND RESIDENCES is a new residential development in Chai Wan, developed jointly by Swire Properties and China Motor Bus Company Limited. The project comprises three residential towers with a total of 850 units.
The development has numerous sustainable features for which it has been awarded BEAM Plus New Buildings 2.0 Provisional Platinum certification. These include adopting grid power for the construction site, building integrated photovoltaics (“BIPV”) on the glass roof of its footbridge and health and wellness-related innovations.
It is the first residential project in Hong Kong to provide a one-stop “smart clinic” in its private clubhouse. This innovative facility offers AI health check services that measure various health indicators. The clinic is also partnering with a healthcare provider on video medical consultation services and same-day medicine delivery. It is hoped that this smart clinic’s success will pave the way for similar facilities and services in our other upcoming residential projects.
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Measuring the Impact of our Places
Understanding the impacts that the places we develop and manage have on society and the environment is crucial to our long-term decision-making.
Vibrancy
We invest considerable time, effort and expense to ensure that all our developments offer arts and cultural activities to benefit users and the public.
Livelihood
Swire Properties drives employment, supports economies and gives a helping hand to NGOs and social enterprises in the communities in which we operate.
Wellbeing
Swire Properties' policies and initiatives support the mental and physical health and wellbeing of our visitors, tenants and workers at all our developments.
Resilience
We work to increase societal resilience by reinforcing social cohesion, boosting our investment in people and communities, and raising our adaptive capacity.
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